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About
Frank Reed Whiteside (American 1866-1929)
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A native of Philadelphia, Frank Reed Whiteside studied at
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in Paris with Benjamin Constant
and Jean-Paul Laurens. Whiteside taught art in public and private schools
including the Pennsylvania Academy. He was a member of the Philadelphia Sketch
Club, the Philadelphia Water Color Club, the Philadelphia Art Alliance and a
fellow of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He traveled extensively
through the southwest where he lived for a period with the Zuni Indians. Many of
his paintings portray the culture, lifestyle and ceremonies of the Zuni, Apache,
and Pueblo Indians A memorial exhibition of Whiteside's work was held at the
Philadelphia Sketch Club in 1929 and a retrospective at the Phoenix (Arizona)
Art Museum in 1971.
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